The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
We’d Like to Report Tim Geithner, Charlie Rangel, Tom Daschle, Kathleen Sebelius and Hilda Solis
“Make Money by Turning In Tax Cheats”–headline, WUSA-TV Web site (Washington), April 7
Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Robot Folds Towel, but Does It Do Windows?”–headline, USA Today Web site, April 7
Why They Hate Us
The Associated Press reports from Denver on an air-terror scare:
A Qatari diplomat trying to sneak a smoke in an airplane bathroom sparked a bomb scare Wednesday night on a flight from Washington to Denver, with fighter jets scrambled and law enforcement put on high alert, officials said.
No explosives were found on the man, and officials do not believe he was trying to harm anyone, according to a senior law enforcement officials [sic] who spoke on condition of anonymity.
ABC News reports that “when the marshals demanded to know what he was doing, the man identified himself as a diplomat from Qatar and responded, perhaps sarcastically, ‘I’m trying to light my shoes on fire.’ “
Certainly no one condones such behavior, but when such things happen, we ought to ask ourselves: Why do they hate us? This makes clear that the time has come to reconsider all those culturally imperialistic antismoking laws.
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